California just fined ConocoPhillips and Phillips 66 $11.6 million as a part of a settlement for waste violations tied to
560 of their service stations.
The complaint, filed in January of 2013, claims that the two affiliates failed to properly train employees and have not adequately maintained leak detection devices, tested secondary containment systems, conducted monthly inspections or maintained operational alarm systems since 2006.
“This settlement holds Phillips 66 and ConocoPhillips accountable for this dangerous negligence and will ensure future compliance with environmental laws,” said Attorney General Kamala Harris.
This is just the most recent settlement ConocoPhillips has reached for polluting the environment.
Back in 2012:
A New York federal judge has approved a settlement between ConocoPhillips Co. and the City of Merced Redevelopment Agency in multidistrict litigation over groundwater contamination from gasoline additive methyl tertiary-butyl ether, according to an order filed Tuesday.
In 2013:
A Florida state judge on Tuesday preliminarily approved a property damage settlement awarding a $9.5 million to residents living near a former Florida fertilizer manufacturing facility turned Superfund site who are accusing ConocoPhillips Inc. and other former owners of polluting the area water supply.
Approximately 5,000 Pensacola, Fla., property owners will be eligible to receive relief under the deal resolving the suit, which claims that a plume of contaminated groundwater subject of litigation 10 years ago migrated south from the settlement area of that case and has now caused additional harm.
ConocoPhillips and fellow defendants Agrico Chemical Co., The Mosaic Co. and The Williams Cos. Inc. deny that the contamination spread into new territory, but agreed to shell out the $9.5 million to resolve the claims and avoid further legal costs, according to the motion for settlement approval.
Does not seem like the fine matches the crime. This company is giving gas companies a bad name.